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May 19, 1997
Patrick Mantey
Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering
Dean Designate, UCSC School of Engineering
Patrick Mantey, who will become dean of UCSC's new School of Engineering, brings a wealth of experience with the Silicon Valley industrial and educational communities to his position.
Chairman of UCSC's Computer Engineering Department since 1984, he worked at IBM in San Jose for 17 years and received numerous honors for his research in computer science. In 1989, Mantey was appointed to the Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering, an endowed position funded by Santa Cruz philanthropist Jack Baskin.
Mantey was born on December 15, 1938, in Fort Morgan, Colorado. He received his B.S. (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame, his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.
Mantey worked as a research associate and lecturer in electrical engineering at Stanford for two years after earning his doctoral degree. In 1967, he joined IBM's Research Division as a member of the research staff in computer science. He advanced in 1972 to the position of senior manager; before coming to UCSC, he managed IBM's Engineering and Special Systems Department. Among Mantey's honors are three IBM Outstanding Contribution Awards, an IBM Invention Achievement Award, and an IBM Patent Award. Throughout this period Mantey continued to lecture at Stanford, as well as at San Jose State University.
Mantey's current research interests include distributed system architecture and performance; electronic libraries and multimedia; image processing, storage, and retrieval; graphics and database applications, including geographic information systems; software engineering; and educational applications of computer technology. He directs an innovative project based at UCSC called REINAS (Real-time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System), funded by a $4.7 million grant from the Office of Naval Research. Mantey and his UCSC team, in collaboration with scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School, have developed a powerful system to collect, store, and visualize environmental data from the Monterey Bay region.
Mantey is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of both the Association for Computing Machinery and Sigma Xi. He serves on the University of California Council on Engineering Education.